COM. v. SCOTT


516 Pa. 346 (1987)

532 A.2d 426

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Kenneth SCOTT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided October 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen C. Welch, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Yvonne A. Okonieski, Deputy Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by allowance from an order of the Superior Court affirming the conviction of Kenneth Scott (appellant) of voluntary manslaughter. We granted allocatur to consider whether the trial court erred in permitting the appellant's wife to testify against him.

On July 4, 1981, Kenneth Scott went to the Harrisburg home of his estranged wife, Linda, to take their children...

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